BELIZE GUATEMALA HONDURAS THE El Salvador Army has unleashed an offensive in the Morazan district, the north east of the country, against revolutionary guerrillas of the -MLN military co-ordination ot the resistance The Junta sanny advisers, and supported by accompanied 1cav Like the US army the Salvador government a strategy of indiscriminate attacks or villares with are cassiuca as rebel.
During the latest offenof Salvadoran FDR sive it is estimated that as thousand • Densams dave been cace or wounded governmen Fifty thousand peotryside, either neighbouring Honduras, to escape the ar My SlaTor.
Despite the ferocity of the army's attack, there is the FMLN resistance from , guerrillas. Since killed in pontical violence 85 per cent of these were 11il- Was vaulcic The military iunta in d Salvador came to power ll 1979 through CIA-engineered coup. So 1977 at 35 per CCI Calc with 38 per or natura ceos resung infectious and diseases comared with 2.1 per cent in people of el Salvador is in- out for the surrector Savage response of the military junta shows that the "fourteen tightly-knit of wealthy families who collate tae country - are prepared to go to any lengths to defeat the opposi tion.
In right-wing circles there is open talk of the need for '200,000 dead' to defeat FIVE important members tionary opposition found murdered last Friday.
rightist thugs been strangled and then shot.
the murders.
tion and a member of the the Revolutionary Democratic Front.
through insurrection defeated.
fee army of the revoluin El Salvador were They had been kidnapped by junta-backed before being killed They had - The Revolutionary Democratic Front accus ed the National Guard of being responsible for Among those murdered were Juan Chocon, one of the most important leaders of the opposiPeople's Revolu tionary Bloc, and Alvarez Cordoba, president of Cordoba was a member of'ane of the 'fourteen families' which dominate the Salvadoran economy. He had become convinced that only would reaction be figures for coffee since the harvest begar September. What can be said certain is that in some regions of the country — particularly around the volcanoes where the best cofproduced the landlords are not harvesting Rather it is precisely the forces of the people's army that are located in those zones that are harvesting the coffee. • They sell the harvest in order • to provide for the people's and peasants who live in those zones Finally, I would like to most important tasks for the movement of solidarity with El Salvador the coming both in the United State:
The Revolutionary Demopointed five fundamental tasks for the solidarity . this period In the first place, it is important to denounce and oppose the growing military intervention by the United States in the internal affairs of In the second place, it is necessary to continue to de Hould human rights in El Salvador the violations of The third task of solidarity is to publicise the refugee problem that is arising in El Salvador. At this moment we already have 40,000 CHUCCES both those inside the country and those who have fled to neighbouring countries who are facing really horrible conditions and who are sublect to abuse bi the security forces This is a very serious pro blem that is growing week by week. Only in the past week for example, we learned that 2,500 more refugees resultec from a military operation by Pro ine ally vince The fourth task is to denounce the military junta and expose the true nature of the government - to explain that it is not a centrist, progressive government, our a. counter what there is in El Salvador.
And, finally, the task is to publicise and seek support tor the Revolutionary Democrat as the expression •of the broad alliance of all the democratic, progressive and revolutionary social sectors of our country, and as the only progressive •powel that can provide stability, peace, and justice to our homeland Those are the five tasks.
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